We are planning on introducing this functionality and the question has been asked before in the attached post. We still do not have any timescales for release as we have other priority work in the pipeline.

csmith:

Yes there is. The plan is to introduce more data into the index, such as the address (certainly post code / post town) but with a lower weight so it doesn't skew the results. Additionally, more advanced queries will be supported to allow searching by specific entity. We don't have a time frame on this yet, as we're concentrating on delivering the common case initially.

Thanks for the quick response @mfairhurst. Reading your answer to this question, it sounds like my use case may actually be better served by an events stream (it's simple enough for me to retain events only relating to postcodes I care about). I look forward to giving that a try, let me know if you need any testers prior to public beta.

HiWe would like to be able to query Companies House by postcode and found this thread. It sounds promising as a future development and I wondered if there was any update given this was posted 6 months ago?Thanks

We are currently working on extending the company search facility to include searching by previous names and hope to complete that within the next month or so. As part of that work, we will be incorporating some of the search improvements (in terms of weightings etc) that we developed as part of the Disqualifications register. That included postcode elements so I would hope that we'd be able to incorporate that facility into company search.